Overview

• President Donald Trump said a new kinetic operation destroyed a vessel and killed three alleged traffickers, releasing a video but withholding the boat’s origin and crew nationalities.
• Official tallies and media reports diverge on casualties and incidents, with Washington citing four boats destroyed and up to 17 dead while other accounts list 14 deaths and no confirmed identities.
• Venezuela denounced a “guerra no declarada,” staged missile drills at La Orchila, and announced civilian weapons training in response to increased U.S. naval deployments reported to include eight ships and a submarine.
• The UN human-rights office reiterated that lethal force at sea must be a last resort only when there is an imminent threat to life, underscoring gaps in publicly available evidence.
• Separately, Spain said 17 suspects were arrested in a Canary Islands probe that seized assets and about 100 kg each of cocaine and hashish, while in Mexico Hernán Bermúdez arrived at El Altiplano as President Claudia Sheinbaum asked federal prosecutors to verify witness claims involving Senator Adán Augusto López.